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by nmcfarl 13y ago
However small percentage of the costs paper is for book it is very large percentage of the value (at least for a percentage of the customers).
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by nmcfarl 13y ago
The backpacking mattresses are still inflated by mouth - I’m certainly not carrying another 2 oz on my back for a week just to save a minute on inflating. And neither are any of the folk I go into the backcountry with. But this mattress is
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by nmcfarl 13y ago
Not a dup of those - their URL and text content is different. However those links are useful as the coversation is on topic, even if the source material is different.
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by nmcfarl 13y ago
nyud.net cached version, as I’m getting a DB error: http://www.investinged.com.nyud.net/100-invested-in-100-1-lo...
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by nmcfarl 13y ago
True - but if you buy a ticket on a jetliner with only one engine working (and it says it on the box), people might be curious as to how it compares to the other airlines that also sell tickets on one engine jets…
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by nmcfarl 13y ago
There are programs that print checks with signatures already on them using just your normal printer. VersaCheck is the one I can think of off the top of my head.
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by nmcfarl 13y ago
I think there’s a continuum here. I’m sure we’ve all been stuck (or heard of the project) with some guy who thinks he’s an architect (but has been hired as a coder) and can sit at his desk for weeks produce lots of docs, but 0 lines of code
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by nmcfarl 13y ago
This is actually what I was trying to point out with that statement - but I clearly muddled it. The class who will see the biggest jump are probably not the young men who are insured and pay for insurance. But the young men who are un insu
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by nmcfarl 13y ago
This was inevitable. The group that pays the least, when it is folded into a larger more varied group, will pay more. There was no way this was not going to work this way. However - how many young men who are not insured by their employer
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by nmcfarl 13y ago
Having known some vegetarians who claim meat is uninteresting and have had a good farm raised and wild caught meat in their pre-vegetarian days, I don't think this is a case. I think for some people meat, and pretty much of all food, is fai
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by nmcfarl 13y ago
My experience is counter to this - most apps created from websites are inferior experiences. Most common reoccurring problem I find is that all links off-site, are displayed in a webframe. Which doesn't give me access to the normal things t
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by nmcfarl 13y ago
Simple alerts via their iPhone application of every debit card transaction made -showing the places name, and a location on a map at the same time. Because there is no cut off, other than turning off notifications, this sounds like it could
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by nmcfarl 13y ago
It is! But it is vector only which may or may not be a concern. And it doesn't import or export PSDs or AIs so if you live embedded in Adobe workflow it probably isn't for you.
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by nmcfarl 13y ago
I'm in my late 30s and I hack for 10 hours a day in a director's chair from the '60s at the kitchen table. I'd suggest getting enough exercise and standing up at least once an hour. And of course paying some attention to the basic ergonomic
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by nmcfarl 13y ago
I think this is an unfair standard, and although I am a founder at my place of employment you can be assured that I will not use "we" to describe my positions on topics without sign off. As a general rule my opinions and those of the firm
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by nmcfarl 13y ago
This came up in the discussion of "Redis as the primary data store?" -> https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5620960 And I was wondering if anyone was using it - and what they thought… -- Also the github repo link: https://github.co
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Edis: a Redis for larger-than-RAM datasets(inaka.github.io)
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by nmcfarl 13y ago
As I didn’t know the Edis project existed, and had to google for it - here’s a link: http://inaka.github.io/edis/ It’s summary is: Edis is a protocol-compatable Server replacement for Redis, written in Erlang. Edis's goal is to be a drop-
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by nmcfarl 13y ago
Is breastmilk generally better than formula? Yes. However this is not a black-and-white issue, particularly in the Developing World. Some mothers cannot produce sufficient breastmilk for their offspring. Others cannot always be available to
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by nmcfarl 13y ago
I'm just going to say that here in Seattle Uber provide better, cheaper, and, I'd guess, safer service with /significantly/ higher prices. I choose them exclusively. You don't have to be perfect to be better...
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by nmcfarl 13y ago
I'm going to leave the answer to others (and your personal risk tolerance vis a vis newer encryption methods). But what is clear is that this article doesn't even mention scrypt - so if you want to get into that question you'll definitely
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by nmcfarl 13y ago
This article boils down to: use bcrypt. If you're reading this article on hacker news you're probably using bcrypt. So I say skip it...
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by nmcfarl 13y ago
7 years is a very short time in the world of banks. I personally would prefer to never have to change banks again in my life - and since my banking has been near entirely online since the late '90s that has seemed reasonable for almost 2 de
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by nmcfarl 13y ago
As a counter point, in 2005, I had a BofA branch in New Mexico say I need a business account to do a transfer to a BofA in Washington state - and otherwise they’d do a wire transfer for $50. (When I was in Wa state transferring to NM was f
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by nmcfarl 14y ago
Interestingly I’ve found repeatedly through my career that there is very little separation between personal and professional spheres. I will give you that there’s a giant difference between a public persona and the person. But I find when
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by nmcfarl 14y ago
And that's a really optimistic best case scenario. When developing Linux software you feel like you're giving something back to the community - here you are just working for Google for free.
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by nmcfarl 14y ago
In the US there is no way to release it works into the public domain (unless you work for the US Government). If you wanted to be free-er than "all rights reserved" you must give it a license that says that. Without a explicit license all
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by nmcfarl 14y ago
The problem is that large scale debt makes you interested in money AFTER you get the degree. While getting it, the debts on hold, and there is no pressure. If you want a class of Doctors that don't care about money, have them accumulate mo
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by nmcfarl 14y ago
But that $10/hr is gone once you are out of residency. And particularly for the Surgeons - who are still working 100 hours - the real money starts. Med Schools is a fine financial decision at this point in history. Lots of debt - but lots
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by nmcfarl 14y ago
The interesting thing to me here is that the IRS is not claiming Google/Microsoft, it is claiming all email. Including that which is served by private servers that goes to other recipients on the same private servers. The fact that you own

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